Augmented Heat Transfer for Angled Rib With Intersecting Rib in Rectangular Channels of Different Aspect Ratios

Author(s):  
Heeyoon Chung ◽  
Jun Su Park ◽  
Sehjin Park ◽  
Seok Min Choi ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho ◽  
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This study was an experimental investigation of the effect of an intersecting rib on heat/mass transfer performance in rectangular channels with angled ribs and different aspect ratios. In a rib-roughened channel with angled ribs, heat/mass transfer performance deteriorates as the channel aspect ratio increases, since the vortices induced by angled ribs diminish with increasing aspect ratio. A longitudinal rib that bisects the angled ribs is suggested to overcome this disadvantage. The heat transfer performance of angled rib configurations with a 60° attack angle were tested with and without an intersecting rib using naphthalene sublimation method. The channel aspect ratio is varied from 1 to 4. When the intersecting rib was present, additional vortices were generated at every point of intersection with the angled ribs. Thus the heat/mass transfer performance was significantly enhanced for all channel aspect ratios when an intersecting rib was added to an ordinary angled rib configuration.

Author(s):  
Wen-Lung Fu ◽  
Lesley M. Wright ◽  
Je-Chin Han

This paper experimentally studies the effects of the buoyancy force and channel aspect ratio on heat transfer in two-pass rotating rectangular channels with smooth walls and 45° ribbed walls. The channel aspect ratios include 4:1, 2:1, 1:1, 1:2 and 1:4. Four Reynolds numbers are studied: 5000, 10000, 25000 and 40000. The rotation speed is fixed at 550 rpm for all tests, and for each channel, two channel orientations are studied: 90° and 45° or 135°, with respect to the plane of rotation. Rib turbulators are placed on the leading and trailing walls of the channels at an angle of 45° to the flow direction. The ribs have a 1.59 by 1.59 mm square cross section, and the rib pitch-to-height ratio (P/e) is 10 for all tests. The effects of the local buoyancy parameter and channel aspect ratio on the regional Nusselt number ratio are presented. The results show that increasing the local buoyancy parameter increases the Nusselt number ratio on the trailing surface and decreases the Nusselt number ratio on the leading surface in the first pass for all channels. However, the trend of the Nusselt number ratio in the second pass is more complicated due to the strong effect of the 180° turn. Results are also presented for this critical turn region of the two-pass channels. In addition to these regions, the channel averaged heat transfer, friction factor, and thermal performance are determined for each channel. With the channels having comparable Nusselt number ratios, the 1:4 channel has the superior thermal performance because it incurs the least pressure penalty.


Author(s):  
Fuguo Zhou ◽  
Sumanta Acharya

Mass/heat transfer measurements are made using the naphthalene sublimation method in a square internal passage where one wall has a single dimple. Four types of dimple shapes are studied: square, triangular, circular and teardrop. Sherwood numbers are obtained both inside and around the dimples. Measurements are made at a Reynolds number of 21,000. In addition, computations are performed for the same dimple geometries, and with the same flow conditions as in the experiments. Flow patterns for the four dimples are identified, and heat transfer distributions for each dimple are obtained. Computational results are compared with the experimental data and show satisfactory agreement. Both experimental and numerical results suggest that the teardrop dimple has the highest heat /mass transfer among the four dimple shapes studied.


2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumanta Acharya ◽  
Fuguo Zhou

Mass/heat transfer measurements are made using the naphthalene sublimation method in a square internal passage where one wall has a single dimple. Four types of dimple shapes are studied: square, triangular, circular, and teardrop. Sherwood numbers are obtained both inside and around the dimples. Measurements are made at a Reynolds number of 21,000. In addition, computations are performed for the same dimple geometries, and with the same flow conditions as in the experiments. Flow patterns for the four dimples are identified and heat transfer distributions for each dimple are obtained. The computational results are compared with the experimental data and show satisfactory agreement. Both the experimental and numerical results suggest that the teardrop dimple has the highest heat /mass transfer among the four dimple shapes studied.


2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (11) ◽  
pp. 1538-1545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung Min Kim ◽  
Sang In Kim ◽  
Yun Heung Jeon ◽  
Dong Hyun Lee ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

In this study, the effects of bleed flow on heat/mass transfer in a rotating smooth square channel were investigated. The hydraulic diameter (Dh) of the channel was 40.0mm, and the diameter of the bleed holes (d) on the leading surface was 4.5mm. Tests were conducted under various bleed flow rates (0%, 10%, 20%) and rotation numbers (0, 0.2, 0.4), while the Reynolds number was fixed at 10,000. A naphthalene sublimation method was employed to determine the detailed heat transfer coefficients using a heat and mass transfer analogy. The results suggested heat/mass transfer characteristics in the internal cooling passage to be influenced by tripping flow as well as Coriolis force induced by bleed flow and channel rotation. In cases influenced by bleed flow, the heat/mass transfer on the leading surface was higher than that without bleed flow. The heat/mass transfer on the leading surface increased with the number of rotations to Ro=0.2, after which it decreased due to rotation effects.


2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Nikitopoulos ◽  
V. Eliades ◽  
S. Acharya

Detailed heat/mass transfer distributions are presented inside a two-pass rotating ribbed coolant channel for two profiled-rib configurations. Several profiled-rib configurations have been studied (Acharya et al., 2000), and it was found that the best performance was achieved by saw-tooth ribs, and a pyramid–valley rib combination. The profiled ribs were placed directly opposite to each other on the leading and trailing surfaces. Smooth side walls were used in all the experiments. Heat transfer measurements were compared with straight ribs of equal blockage ratio. The measurements were made in a two-pass rotating facility using the naphthalene sublimation mass transfer technique, which provides highly resolved surface distributions. The results presented are for a Reynolds number of 30,000, two rotation numbers (0 and 0.3), and include average heat/mass transfer over the entire inter-rib module as well as detailed heat/mass transfer contours for two profiled-rib cases. Significant enhancement of up to 25 percent in heat/mass transfer was obtained with the pyramid–valley and saw-tooth shaped ribs under rotating conditions.


Author(s):  
D. E. Nikitopoulos ◽  
V. Eliades ◽  
S. Acharya

Detailed heat/mass transfer distributions are presented inside a two-pass rotating ribbed coolant channel for two profiled-rib configurations. Several profiled-rib configurations have been studied (Acharya et al.; 2000), and it was found that the best performance was achieved by saw-tooth ribs, and a pyramid–valley rib combination. The profiled ribs were placed directly opposite to each other on the leading and trailing surfaces. Smooth side walls were used in all the experiments. Heat transfer measurements were compared with straight ribs of equal blockage ratio. The measurements were made in a two-pass rotating facility using the naphthalene sublimation mass transfer technique which provides highly resolved surface distributions. The results presented are for a Reynolds number of 30,000 two Rotation numbers (0 and 0.3) and include average heat/mass transfer over the entire inter-rib-module as well as detailed heat/mass transfer contours for two profiled-rib cases. Significant enhancements of up to 25% in heat/mass transfer was obtained with the pyramid-valley, and saw-tooth shaped ribs under rotating conditions.


Author(s):  
Lesley M. Wright ◽  
Eungsuk Lee ◽  
Je-Chin Han

The effect of rotation on smooth narrow rectangular channels and narrow rectangular channels with pin-fins is investigated in this study. Pin-fins are commonly used in the narrow sections within the trailing edge of the turbine blade; the pin-fins act as turbulators to enhance internal cooling while providing structural support in this narrow section of the blade. The rectangular channel is oriented at 150° with respect to the plane of rotation, and the focus of the study involves narrow channels with aspect ratios of 4:1 and 8:1. The enhancement due to both conducting (copper) pin-fins and non-conducting (plexi-glass) pins is investigated. Due to the varying aspect ratio of the channel, the height-to-diameter ratio (hp/Dp) of the pins varies from two, for an aspect ratio of 4:1, to unity, for an aspect ratio of 8:1. A staggered array of pins with uniform streamwise and spanwise spacing (xp/Dp = sp/Dp = 2.0) is studied. With this array, 42 pin-fins are used, giving a projected surface density of 3.5 pins/in2 (0.543 pins/cm2), for the leading or trailing surfaces. The range of flow parameters include Reynolds number (ReDh = 5000–20000), rotation number (Ro = 0.0–0.302), and inlet coolant-to-wall density ratio (Δρ/ρ = 0.12). Heat transfer in a stationary pin-fin channel can be enhanced up to 3.8 times that of a smooth channel. Rotation enhances the heat transferred from the pin-fin channels 1.5 times that of the stationary pin-fin channels. Overall, rotation enhances the heat transfer from all surfaces in both the smooth and pin-fin channels. Finally, as the rotation number increases, spanwise variation increases in all channels.


1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-Jong Hong ◽  
Shou-Shing Hsieh

The combined effects of rib alignment and channel aspect ratio on the distributions of the local heat transfer coefficient and on the friction factors for developing and fully developed flow in short square and rectangular channels (L/DH = 13.5–18) with a pair of opposite rib-roughened walls were determined for Reynolds numbers ranging from 13,000 to 130,000. The channel aspect ratios are 1/2 and 1 and the rib alignment configurations are arranged as staggered and in-line types, respectively. The pitch to rib height ratio is 5.31 for all test channels. The local heat transfer distributions on the bottom rib-roughened wall from the channel entrance to the downstream region are presented and discussed. Semi-empirical heat transfer and friction correlations are developed, and the results are compared with those of previous investigations for similarly configured channels, which were roughened by regularly spaced transverse ribs.


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